Month: November 2017

Since we launched BRAVE NEW EUROPE we have stressed the violence of austerity. In 2013 David Stuckler and Sanjy Basu wrote a convincing book entitled “The Body Economic – Why Austerity Kills” concerning the short […]

Just as wtih GDP, productivity as such is not good. It depends on the type of productivity as Lindsay Mackie explains. Lindsay Mackie was trained as a journalist in Scotland and joined The Guardian as a […]

There has been a lot of speculation concerning stagnating productivity in the Western industrial nations. Britain has been particularly hard hit. There is much speculation concerning this development. Wren-Lewis offers an interesting analysis. Read here […]

Duncan Green is Head of Research at Oxfam GB Cross-posted from Duncan’s blog From Poverty to Power So a physicist, an anthropologist, and two political economists have lunch in the LSE canteen and start arguing […]

This article applies not only for cars at school gates. Due to the fraud of Volkswagen and other car companies the air in most of our cities is polluted above the permissible levels. Besides government […]

Book Reviews

Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]

Book review by David Beer Is technology undermining democracy? Do we ever really know how we arrive at our political views? The pixelated vision of the near future offered in Jamie Bartlett’s new book […]